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Who We Look For:
Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers who thrive in fast-paced global environments. We are seeking a motivated Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support the WM Data Engineering ecosystem. In this role, you will apply software engineering principles to operational challenges, ensuring that our cloud-native services - primarily running on AWS are resilient, scalable, and cost-optimized. As we transition from on-premises legacy systems to AWS, you will be the guardian of system health, moving beyond traditional dashboards to implement predictive remediation and SLOs-as-Code.
Key Responsibilities:
- Reliability & Performance Engineering:
- SLO Management: Define and enforce Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) using OpenSLO or similar declarative frameworks. Manage "Error Budgets" to balance the pace of innovation with system stability.
- Predictive Observability: Implement AI-driven observability stacks (e.g., Datadog, Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights, or OpenTelemetry) to detect "p99" latency spikes and subtle configuration drifts before they impact users.
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Incident Response: Lead high-severity incident restoration and conduct blameless post-mortems to identify root causes and automate future prevention.
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Cloud Migration & Orchestration:
- Microservices Migration: Support the migration of on-premises microservices to Amazon ECS (Fargate/EC2). Design and maintain task definitions, service discovery via AWS Cloud Map, and inter-service communication using Amazon ECS Service Connect.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Develop and maintain modular, version-controlled infrastructure using Terraform or AWS CDK, ensuring that reliability guardrails are baked into every deployment.
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Automation of Toil: Identify and eliminate repetitive manual tasks ("toil") by developing custom automation tools in Python or Go.
-
Modernization:
- Migration Support: Contribute to the migration of on-premises data workloads to AWS.
Qualifications
- Experience: 4+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering roles, with a strong focus on production operations for distributed systems.
- Container Orchestration: Deep proficiency in Amazon ECS (Fargate and EC2 launch types). Experience with Docker containerization and managing service-to-service connectivity.
- Programming: Strong proficiency in Python or Java for automation and tool development. Expert-level SQL for data-driven reliability analysis.
- Cloud Platforms: Advanced knowledge of AWS core services (VPC, IAM, S3, Lambda) and networking (Transit Gateway, PrivateLink).
- Observability Tools: Hands-on experience with modern monitoring and tracing tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, AWS X-Ray, or Splunk.
- CI/CD for Containers: Proven ability to build automated deployment pipelines for ECS using AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, or Terraform, incorporating blue/green or canary deployment strategies.
- Soft Skills: Strong problem-solving "builder" mindset and the ability to communicate technical concepts within a team environment.
Education
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS
At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.
We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.
We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process.
© The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2023. All rights reserved. Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits
Healthcare & Medical Insurance
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
Holiday & Vacation Policies
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
Financial Wellness & Retirement
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.
Health Services
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.
Fitness
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).
Child Care & Family Care
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs
Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.
Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLE
Associate
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Dallas
JOB FUNCTION
Software Engineering
DIVISION
Asset & Wealth Management
Cloud SRE Engineer - Associate
Who We Look For:
Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers who thrive in fast-paced global environments. We are seeking a motivated Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support the WM Data Engineering ecosystem. In this role, you will apply software engineering principles to operational challenges, ensuring that our cloud-native services - primarily running on AWS are resilient, scalable, and cost-optimized. As we transition from on-premises legacy systems to AWS, you will be the guardian of system health, moving beyond traditional dashboards to implement predictive remediation and SLOs-as-Code.
Key Responsibilities:
- Reliability & Performance Engineering:
- SLO Management: Define and enforce Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) using OpenSLO or similar declarative frameworks. Manage "Error Budgets" to balance the pace of innovation with system stability.
- Predictive Observability: Implement AI-driven observability stacks (e.g., Datadog, Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights, or OpenTelemetry) to detect "p99" latency spikes and subtle configuration drifts before they impact users.
-
Incident Response: Lead high-severity incident restoration and conduct blameless post-mortems to identify root causes and automate future prevention.
-
Cloud Migration & Orchestration:
- Microservices Migration: Support the migration of on-premises microservices to Amazon ECS (Fargate/EC2). Design and maintain task definitions, service discovery via AWS Cloud Map, and inter-service communication using Amazon ECS Service Connect.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Develop and maintain modular, version-controlled infrastructure using Terraform or AWS CDK, ensuring that reliability guardrails are baked into every deployment.
-
Automation of Toil: Identify and eliminate repetitive manual tasks ("toil") by developing custom automation tools in Python or Go.
-
Modernization:
- Migration Support: Contribute to the migration of on-premises data workloads to AWS.
Qualifications
- Experience: 4+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering roles, with a strong focus on production operations for distributed systems.
- Container Orchestration: Deep proficiency in Amazon ECS (Fargate and EC2 launch types). Experience with Docker containerization and managing service-to-service connectivity.
- Programming: Strong proficiency in Python or Java for automation and tool development. Expert-level SQL for data-driven reliability analysis.
- Cloud Platforms: Advanced knowledge of AWS core services (VPC, IAM, S3, Lambda) and networking (Transit Gateway, PrivateLink).
- Observability Tools: Hands-on experience with modern monitoring and tracing tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, AWS X-Ray, or Splunk.
- CI/CD for Containers: Proven ability to build automated deployment pipelines for ECS using AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, or Terraform, incorporating blue/green or canary deployment strategies.
- Soft Skills: Strong problem-solving "builder" mindset and the ability to communicate technical concepts within a team environment.
Education
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS
At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.
We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.
We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process.
© The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2023. All rights reserved. Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits
Healthcare & Medical Insurance
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
Holiday & Vacation Policies
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
Financial Wellness & Retirement
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.
Health Services
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.
Fitness
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).
Child Care & Family Care
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs
Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.
Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLE
Associate
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Dallas
JOB FUNCTION
Software Engineering
DIVISION
Asset & Wealth Management
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Sre Engineer
Align your credentials to U.S. specialty occupation standards
Your Australian bachelor's degree in computer science or software engineering satisfies the E-3 degree requirement, but your resume must clearly map your SRE skills to the specific role. Vague titles like 'systems engineer' can complicate LCA job classification.
Target employers with active E-3 or LCA filing history
Search the DOL's foreign labor certification disclosure data to find companies that have filed LCAs for SRE or site reliability roles. Prior E-3 filings signal the employer already understands the process and won't need to be educated from scratch.
Address on-call and hybrid work arrangements before filing
SRE roles often involve multi-site or remote on-call responsibilities. The LCA must list the primary worksite, so clarify your employer's office location policy before filing to avoid a deficiency notice from the DOL.
Get your offer letter to specify degree field requirements
The E-3 requires that the role theoretically requires a relevant degree, not just that you happen to have one. Ask your employer to include the required field of study in your offer letter before the LCA is filed.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork
LCA filing, DS-160 preparation, and consulate scheduling involve tight sequencing that's easy to misorder. Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service manages the entire process from offer to consulate appointment so nothing slips between stages.
Book your consulate appointment as soon as LCA certification arrives
The DOL certifies LCAs within seven working days. Schedule your Australian consulate appointment immediately after certification, since appointment slots in Sydney and Melbourne can book out several weeks, affecting your U.S. start date.
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Find Sre Engineer JobsSre Engineer E-3 Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find SRE Engineer jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Australian professionals searching for U.S. roles with E-3 sponsorship. You can filter SRE Engineer positions by companies that have E-3 or LCA filing history, which removes the guesswork of cold-applying to employers unfamiliar with the visa. Generic job boards don't surface sponsorship willingness the same way.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does an SRE Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes. SRE engineering roles consistently qualify as specialty occupations because they require at minimum a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related field. The job duties must genuinely require that degree, so roles that accept any degree or substitute equivalent experience without a degree can face scrutiny during LCA review.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for SRE engineers?
The E-3 has a 10,500 annual allocation that has never been fully used, and there's no lottery. The H-1B is capped at 85,000 per year with a competitive lottery that rejects most registrants. For an Australian SRE engineer, the E-3 means a predictable, employer-controlled timeline rather than waiting on a random draw that may never come.
Can I change employers while on an E-3 as an SRE engineer?
Yes, but each new employer must file a new LCA and you need a new E-3 visa stamp reflecting the new role before re-entering the U.S. from outside the country. If you're already in the U.S., you can begin working for the new employer once the new LCA is certified, but you'll need the updated visa stamp at your next international trip.
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